522 LXXXVI. LOGANIACEE (BAKER). | Strychnos. 
terminal. Corolla unknown. Berry globose, the size of a large pea, 
4-1 in, diam., 1-seeded. 
Mozamb. Dist. (German East Africa: Bagamoyo District ; Udoe, Rossako, 
Stuhlmann, 8053. 
8. S. angolensis, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xvii. 571. A climbing 
shrub; branchlets pubescent; tendrils single, hooked, stout, spiral, 
Leaves obovate, oblong or suborbicular, obtuse, very coriaceous, 
1-1} in. long, distinctly 5-nerved from the base to above the 
middle, glabrous; petiole } in. long. Flowers in copious axillary 
thyrsoid panicles about 1 in. long. Calyx very small ; segments broad, 
obtuse. Corolla globose in bud, with a very short tube. Style very 
short. Fruit not seen.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 703. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; in shady places by streams in 
Barranco de Songue, Welwitsch, 4776, by the River Tangue, Welwitsch, 4777, and 
without precise locality, Welwitsch, 6020! 
9. S. zizyphoides, Baker in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 96. A much- 
branched climbing shrub; branchlets glabrous; tendrils simple, 
slender. Leaves obovate, subacute, subcoriaceous, glabrous, 1-1} iD. 
long, distinctly triplinerved from near the base to above the middle; 
petiole very short. Flowers in copious compound axillary cymes with 
short ascending peduncles, Calyx very small; segments broad, obtuse. 
Bud globose. Style very short. Fruit globose, } in. in diam., 1-seeded ; 
pericarp crustaceous. 
Upper Guinea. (Gold Coast: without precise locality, Burton & Cameron ! 
10. S. Afzelii, Gilg in Engl. Jabrb. xvii. 572. Aclimbing shrub ; 
branchlets glabrous; tendrils slender, forked. Leaves shortly petioled, 
obovate or obovate-oblong, 2—3 in. long, acute, cuneate at the base, 
quite glabrous, smooth, shining, triplinerved from near the base. 
Cymes axillary, many-flowered. Flowers 5-merous. Berry very 
small, 2-seeded, yellowish when dried ; pericarp thin, hard. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone ; near the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, Scoft- 
Elliot, 4015 ! by the River Scarcies at Moria, Scott-Elliot, 4480! and without 
precise locality, Afzelius / 
11. S. erythrocarpa, Gilg in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 199. A wide- 
climbing shrub; tendrils simple; branchlets unarmed, terete, clothed 
with yellowish hairs. Leaves shortly petioled, obovate or obovate- 
oblong, 5-nerved, 14-3 in. long by half as broad, very acute, gradually 
narrowed to the base, shining, glabrous, chartaceous, finally coriaceous. 
Flowers in axillary many-flowered compound cymes; peduncles 13-2 
in. long; pedicels very short. Sepals 5, nearly free, ovate, acute, 
3 lin. long. Corolla yellowish, } in. long; tube very short, obconic ; 
lobes ovate, acute, hairy inside. Stamens much longer than the 
corolla-tube. Berry red, fleshy, laterally compressed, $-3 in. long. 
Seeds much compressed, orange-yellow, }—} in. thick. 
Upper Guinea. Togo, Baumann, 558. 
